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Blast from the Past

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I know this has been done before, but I was reading a Slate article called Jurassic Web about the Internet of 1996 and came across a link to the WayBack Machine. I searched for CF and came across the login page from December 2003:

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The Jurasic Web is such an interesting article, I was in high school at the time when the Internet was just starting to really change and become main stream, I remember I had begged to get a smoking fast 56k modem and I would pay the bills with my after school job. My kids will never believe me when I tell them the stories about what the Internet used to be like, especially about how I never had a computer until I bought one myself in high school, ah the good ol' Pentium II, with my 2Gb HDD.

I remember as a kid my Dad would occasionally bring home his IBM from work so we could all sit around the kitchen table and play solitaire It's amazing he ever did that, it was the monitor, tower, keyboard, sheesh I can't believe he called it portable. But spoiled I'm not, I had to pay for that super expensive PII, I remember it costing quite a lot just not sure exactly how much anymore.

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